MetadataType and client validation in ASP.NET MVC 2

Question

Inherited properties and MetadataType does not seem to work with client side validation in ASP.NET MVC 2.

The validation of our MetadataTypes work a

Answer 1

According to a Microsoft official this is a bug in ASP.NET MVC 2. I was given the link below and although the scenario isn't exactly the same, it seems to be the same problem. As far as I can tell it is related to inhertited properties and DataAnnotations model metadata provider. The link says they will try to fix the issue in ASP.NET MVC 3.

Asp.net MVC 2 RC2: the client side validation does not work with overridden properties